Brand new to the forums, hope this is the right place for my question. I have my parents 45-50yr old Magnavox console. It has the 8608-10 tube amp in it & the radio & turntable play - so I assume it's in working order. Been reading up a lot about caps drying out & tubes needing replacing. Too many posts and options. Can anyone point me to a good starting point for these amps....Thanks

otherwise it is a matter of searching the web for a schematic as a starting point.
While it may play, the front left aluminum cylinder is the main filter cap. It should be replaced as a safety precaution.

First is adding a three prong safety cord with ground to the chassis.

From this side it looks like a stereo 6BQ5 single end amp. what are the tubes?

I'm guessing a 12AX7 and 2X 6BQ5/EL84s. Looks like the B+ rectification is SS of some kind, on the underside. 5 WPC is about right. The multi-wire umbilical is probably carrying power to and/or from the tuner. Unfortunately, the phono cartridge rates to be piezoelectric and anything but good. The turntable is probably no better, sorry. Look for a place where the turntable is connected to the tuner. You could pop those RCA males out and plug a CDP in there.

IMO, the I/P RCA jacks need to be replaced with something of higher quality that's spaced for modern "fat" interconnect cables. Mouser part numbers 568-NF2D-B-9 and 568-NF2D-B-2 (1 each) will do that quite nicely.

Thanks for the info guys....this is part of a console my parents had while I was growing up. They didn't want it - I did. The rectifier shows 6CA4, then two taller tubes show 6BQ5, then a smaller one in front of the filter cap shows 6EU7. The console is in good shape, but I have a vintage pair of Chorus II that would really like this amp I bet. @Eli - do I need to find it coming from the tuner because there is a pre-amp involved? Sorry - I'm not versed in the way these amps work.